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Cloud Solutions Architect @ Ciena - Serverless, AWS, Full Stack, Kubernetes, Rust, Go, Terraform, Security, React, MLOps, Forecasting, Maker, Electronics.

Ottawa, Ontario

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Joined April 2009

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My latest blog is now available. The Serverless Cloud Pizzeria Shop is a Full-stack Serverless project using React JS, Momento Topics, Step Functions, Lambda, Fargate, and more where the progress of orders is updated automatically in the UI. I wanted to come up with an example

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One part that costs a lot of people big $$’s is NAT Gateway and not understanding how data flows in AWS. If you use VPCs and don’t setup VPC endpoints the costs can be very high. Andrew Larsen talks about the debugging process and fixes for the problem.

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AWS NAT Gateway, Fargate, & ECR Cost Gotcha

At Compoze Labs, we commonly deploy our internal and customer infrastructure to AWS ECS Fargate. We find Fargate to be easy to manage and…

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Learn by example! An excellent series from Abhishek Chaudhuri with lots of example code on building apps on AWS using many components and taking advantage of the free tier. #serverless

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Event Driven Architectures (EDA) are a modern approach to application design. One of the key components of many #EDA designs is #webhooks . This article from Daniel Wirjo, Justin Plock, and James Beswick shows best practices for these on @awscloud

Sending and receiving webhooks on AWS: Innovate with event notifications | Amazon Web Services

Webhooks are a popular method for applications to communicate, and for businesses to collaborate and integrate with customers and partners. This post shows how you can build applications to send and...

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Learn by example! Setting up an #EventDrivenApplication using AWS #serverless components like #AWSLambda , #SNS , and more.

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Event-Driven Architecture on AWS: Automating Notifications on S3 Object Deletion

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An excellent example for how to use @HashiCorp #terraform to setup your own #CICD pipeline on #AWS . More great stuff from @towardsAWS !

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Terraform: Deploy A Two-Tier Architecture With AWS. Configuring a CI/CD Pipeline on Terraform Cloud

Configuring a CI/CD Pipeline on Terraform Cloud

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Generative AI is on the top of people's minds. Now that AWS Bedrock is available you can try it out for yourself. Here is an example using a #AWSLambda function to test out #AWSBedrock from Antonio Lagrotteria #serverless #GenAI #GenerativeAI @awscloud

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Bedrock unveiled: A Quick Lambda example

One of the most awaited AWS releases of 2023 is finally Generally Available (GA): Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service to build generative AI applications with foundation models (FMs). This…

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When it comes to monitoring your app running in AWS you have a number of options. You can go 3rd party with @DatadogHQ or others or use the tools AWS provides like Cloudwatch. This article from @ABandaranaike uses #terraform to set up #Cloudwatch .

How to Build an AWS CloudWatch Dashboard using Terraform

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Learn by example! Here is a detailed article showing how to setup a #serverless application to upload files to S3 with a front end including a Cloudfront CDN - all managed using #Terraform for Infrastructure as Code. #AWSLambda From Vishal Mishra with

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Implementing a file storage service for user content using API Gateway, Lambda, and S3: Part — 1

Cloud File Storage Service built using AWS Serverless Services — API Gateway & Lambda and served via CloudFront Distribution

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#Langchain is a tool you have likely heard a lot about recently. It helps to integrate LLMs with real applications. In this article from @ElizabethFue12 , #AmazonBedrock is used with @LangchainAI to build a conversational app and store context in #dynamodb

Working With Your Live Data Using LangChain

🇻🇪🇨🇱 Dev.to Linkedin GitHub Twitter Instagram Youtube Linktr ✅ Original Blog: Working With Your...

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There is a lot of material out there for people studying for AWS Certifications and also just for general knowledge on AWS. A lot of it isn't very useful and it's hard to pick out quality information. Here is a really good article (and links to videos

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A beginner's guide to AWS Best Practices

I was recently asked to run a session on “AWS Best Practices” with some engineers who were...

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You want to learn a little about #Rustlang and #ProtocolBuffers ? Here is nice article setting up a JWT auth system using these from @PaucotMartin #grpc

Roll your own auth with Rust and Protobuf

Introduction 1. What is Protobuf? 2. What are we going to accomplish 3. Requirements Get...

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I prefer using GitHub Actions for CI/CD but you can do it all in AWS. Setting up your own #CICD pipeline in @awscloud using #CodePipeline and related AWS tools from Lateef Taiwo

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CICD with AWS Codepipeline

Hello Cloud Professionals, in one of my previous articles, I explained a step by step approach to host a secure, fast and reliable static…

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Observability is one of the most important parts to having a successful application that lives for a long time. The problem is that many projects, in the rush to get them out the door, don’t build the hooks and tools in that are needed to make their apps

A Deep Dive into Logs and Metrics for AWS Observability — One Observability Workshop

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One of the most popular container solutions on @AWScloud is #Fargate . It is a form of #serverless containers where you don’t have to worry about server provisioning or container orchestration. One of the neat parts of using Fargate is that it supports

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Optimizing costs with GitHub Actions and AWS Fargate Spot.

Boost Dev Speed! 🚀 Experience 60% faster tests and save over 90% on costs with Fargate Spot and GitHub Actions. 💰✨ #DevOps

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Pretty much every tutorial about using AWS mentions how adding tags on your resources when you create them is a really good idea and then they usually stop doing it in the tutorial after a while to save time and repetition. In the real world when you

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Monitor your AWS costs: Guide to consistent Tagging

To gain insight into cloud expenditure, a good practice is to tag your resources. Tagging resources is helpful not only for tracking costs…

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A really useful change from #AWS S3 #Mountpoint allows you to access files in S3 like they are native to your filesystem. This will really help in cases where you want to interact with objects in S3 with your container apps without writing SDK code.

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 – Generally Available and Ready for Production Workloads | Amazon Web...

Update (September 2023) – Add information about enabling file deletion. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is an open source file client that makes it easy for your file-aware Linux applications to connect...

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Including best practices for security in your #CICD pipelines is something that everyone should be looking at these days. This article from KUMAR KARAN discussing incorporating some of these into your @awscloud #CodePipeline setup with #ECS

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DevSecOps with AWS CodePipeline and ECS

CodePipline is a popular AWS Native CICD tool that we will use to build & deploy the application on the ECS. The blog covers the detailed…

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Learn by example! There are many ways to run containers on AWS and Fargate is one that comes up quite often. Fargate works with ECS (where it is most often mentioned) but also works with managed EKS kubernetes. This example from Satyam Sareen shows how

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Create EKS Fargate cluster with EKS Add-Ons & Expose Microservices using AWS Load Balancer…

Hello learners, today we’ll be creating an EKS Fargate cluster, and we’ll install some EKS add-ons on top of it. We’ll then finally install…

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#GithubActions and Workflows are a great env for you #CiCD pipelines. You get 2000 mins of runners per month but if you need more you can host your own runners on places like AWS and even use spot EC2 instances. Great article from Jakub Jewloszewicz

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Most of the articles around using Fargate on AWS involve using it with Elastic Container Service ( #ECS ) but Fargate can be used with Elastic Kubernetes Service ( #EKS ) as well. In both cases you don’t have to deal with the servers the containers run on.

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How to run EKS Fargate Pods

Step by step guide on EVERYTHING you need to run k8s pods on EKS Fargate.

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Using Infrastructure as code is important in your cloud projects. Terraform is the leader is this space - especially if you’re using more than one cloud provider or using additional components like Kubernetes. This article from Samuel Duncan details

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Infrastructure as Code: AWS, Modules, and Terraform Cloud

When I was in the Army, everything was modular — weapons, vehicles, equipment. Our tactical gear was even called “Modular Lightweight…

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Github Actions & Workflows are a powerful automation and workflow mgmt system. They are also free to use for the first 30+ hours/month. This article explains what #GitHubActions and Workflows are and how to use them to automate deployments and workflows.

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Learn by example! There are a number of options for running containers on AWS. One of the oldest options but still a great choice for many cases is the Elastic Container Service ( #ECS ). With ECS you can choose to use EC2 instances or Fargate for

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AWS ECS Deployment: Containerized Application with ECR and Fargate

In this project, we embark on an exciting journey into the world of AWS Cloud, diving deep into various services offered by Amazon Web Services. We start by creating an EC2 instance, configuring AWS...

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When running containers on AWS a great option is to use the Elastic Container Service (ECS). When using AWS a great option for Infrastructure as Code is the Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Here is a good example of setting up a container infrastructure is

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Create Amazon ECS Cluster, Task Definition, Service and Scheduled Task using AWS CDK(Python)

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container service that helps you easily deploy, manage, and scale…

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Using websockets to implement a real time chat application is a common approach and on AWS, the API Gateway supports using websocket APIs. Using AWS Lambda functions and a DynamoDB backing store along with this makes a good example of a #serverless

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Serverless Websockets using Lambda, API Gateway and Dynamo Db.

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Security is an often undervalued component of modern cloud applications. The API Gateway approach is very commonly used One #serverless approach for security with these is to use #AWSLambda authorizers. Here Kelvin Onuchukwu shows how to use these.

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Monitoring the status of your apps and logging what is happening are key to having a successful product. In @AWScloud the simplest approach uses #Cloudwatch . Here Vishal Mishra details using #Terraform to setup a #serverless app along with Cloudwatch.

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Monitoring and Logging with AWS CloudWatch

Logging and Monitoring with AWS CloudWatch for serverless application #Serverless #AWSCloudWatch #Lambda #Terraform #S3 #devops #project

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An interesting article from Nik L about using #serverless tools on @aws_cloud to build notification systems. #AWSLambda

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Serverless Architectures for Notifications Design Using AWS - A Complete Guide for Developer

In the world of modern software engineering, establishing a robust notification infrastructure is a...

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A really good article to read if your plans are to become an AWS Solutions Architect! From Cloudmize and @TowardsAWS

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How I Would Become an AWS Solutions Architect Again: A Journey Re-imagined

Crafting a Roadmap to AWS Solutions Architect Excellence: A Reimagined Approach

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Managing costs is one of the biggest challenges faced when building your apps in the cloud. Here is a hands on example of using #Terraform to setup a monitoring infrastructure using #serverless components that you can query. #iac #costControl

Terraform: Building AWS Infrastructure for Analyzing Resource Costs with AWS Cost and Usage Reports…

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Using immutable infrastructure is a very popular approach in modern cloud app environments. It involves servers that cannot be modified after being launched. This approach helps ensure consistency and reproducibility. This blog from Chenwi Ngu shows how

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Immutable Infrastructure Automation with Packer, Ansible, Terraform, and GitHub Actions

The field of DevOps is dynamic and in constant evolution. New tools and techniques being developed to help organizations streamline their…

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When designing your applications on AWS and you are in need of a database, you should certainly consider if DynamoDB makes sense. It is truly #Serverless and can scale to any size. This article from Unubold Tumenbayar does a really good job summarizing

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Serverless 2 — DynamoDB

In the previous blog, I wrote about Lambda which is a function with that you can build anything including backend APIs and jobs. It is…

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An excellent article covering various parts of designing a #serverless APi and the backend components associated with it. From Heeki Park @AWS .

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Building serverless APIs using single table design and test-driven development

During the winter break when things were relatively quiet, I decided to build an application that manages and tracks daily reading…

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Cloud provider access keys should never be passed around or stored - in fact they should be used only when there is no other option. With most integrations today you can use temporary access tokens provided by OIDC. Here is how to do that with your

[DevOps] — Secure AWS Connection in Github Actions

Level: Intermediate | Techs: AWS, GitHub, Terraform

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AWS announced earlier this year they would start charging for IPv4 addresses you use in your accounts starting in about 3 months from now. This change will likely impact almost everyone using AWS. @suhailist talks about why and if you can do anything.

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AWS Pricing Update: The Shift in Public IP Costs

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is going to start charging for the use of IPv4. At first glance the $0.005 does not seem too prohibitive…

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Your AWS app is up and running. Now you open up your wallet and hand 3rd Party monitoring ppl their share. Tools in AWS can do a really good job if you know how to use them for a lot less $$$ An excellent series from @isenbergRan on using #Cloudwatch .

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Idempotency isn’t a widely understood topic but it is important in a #serverless and asynchronous world to ensure consistently. Here Pascal Vogel defines it and shows how to use @awscloud #Powertools for #AWSLambda to implement idempotency in your code.

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Implementing idempotent AWS Lambda functions with Powertools for AWS Lambda (TypeScript) | Amazon...

This post is written by Alexander Schüren, Sr Specialist SA, Powertools. One of the design principles of AWS Lambda is to “develop for retries and failures”. If your function fails, the Lambda...

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Access tokens are a key part of authentication and authorization in modern applications. They are also one of the best ways for bad actors to get into your system. Here is an article taking about best practices and what can go wrong from Robert Levine

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The Cloud has a serious and fragile vulnerability: Access Tokens

The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol is the most important security protocol in the majority of organizations guaranteeing secure communications. However, it is often managed solely to prevent...

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Here is my latest blog about a #serverless solution to dataset/batch processing on AWS. In the example, transaction data from various locations of a business get uploaded to AWS every day and then need to be processed. One approach to handle this is to

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AWS Lambda Serverless Processor: Rust, Fargate

Serverless data processing with AWS Lambda, Step Functions, Fargate, Rust; scalable large batch processing, real-time updates

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Learn by Example! I always recommend to manage your cloud infrastructure using some kind of Infrastructure as Code tools. #Terraform is an excellent choice for this. This blog from Neel Soni shows with good detail setting up your AWS infrastructure

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Build Your Own AWS Infrastructure with Ease using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Terraform Hands-on Project

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AWS #StepFunctions is a great tool for orchestrating the flow of your apps using multiple components. Sometimes you want to break the logic down more and create sub workflows to handle parts of the overall flow. Here @Kasundsilva shows how. #serverless

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Mastering AWS Step Functions: Unleashing the Power of Nested Workflows

Amazon Step Functions is a powerful service provided by AWS that enables you to coordinate and manage...

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Using Github Actions and workflows is a great choice for your CI/CD pipelines or any kind of automation tasks you may have. Using a declarative approach with Infrastructure as Code means you define what you want provisioned in the end and the tool sends

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EC2 Configuration using Ansible & GitHub Actions

Disclaimer Some basic understanding of GitHub, GitHub Actions, Terragrunt, and Ansible is needed to...

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Use #Terraform Infrastructure as Code to deploy your #serverless application. Here is an article from vladkens using #iac to setup a #FastAPI based backend with #AWSLambda as the main component

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Learn by example! Another great example @AWScloud #serverless project from Inderjot Singh using #AWSLambda , #DynamoDB and more.

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AWS Serverless Hands On Project

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Infrastructure as Code tools make it much easier to maintain your cloud environment Here @birkoffh gives some great examples of using #Terraform #iac and how to deal with multiple environments without having many tf and variable files.

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My IaC AWS Multi-Account Provisioning BluePrint & Best Practices…

And How to assume the Terraform Execution Role with SSO Users.

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A nice and simple example to get you started with Terraform Infrastructure as Code and AWS to setup an email alarm notification on high EC2 Utilization from Chinmay Tonape

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Getting Started with AWS and Terraform: Setting Up CloudWatch Alarms for CPU Utilization on AWS EC2...

In a previous post, we walked through the process of hosting a Windows IIS web server on an AWS EC2...

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When you have components in 2 Virtual Private Cloud networks (VPCs) in your AWS account that need to talk to each other or VPCs in separate accounts that need to talk to each other, one solution is to use #VPC Peering. This article from Manish Singh

VPC Peering: Seamlessly Connecting AWS Virtual Networks

Ever wondered about the outcome when your resources are divided across various Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) within the same AWS region…

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Using an Infrastructure as Code approach to manage your infra and apps is really a must now. This excellent article from @sebbel details how to use #Terraform to manage your #AWSLambda #serverless functions.

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A detailed example of how to setup your #EKS Kubernetes environment on AWS using #Terraform #iac from ManojSaini

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AWS — Provision EKS Cluster Using Terraform Resources

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed service that makes it easy to run Kubernetes on AWS. With EKS, you can focus on…

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In many cases you need to connect locally to your resources in AWS. The traditional approach is to use SSH but AWS provides a much better option. Here @suzuki_optemo describes how to use #SSM to locally connect to an RDS database in AWS.

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How to Securely Connect to RDS from a Local Environment Using AWS Session Manager

Until now, we used SSH tunnels through a bastion EC2 to connect to our database (RDS), facilitating...

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A must read article on #serverless . Some great advice on running #AWSLambda at scale from jspiliot

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Some people find it tedious to have to deal with YAML files for everything related to Kubernetes. Things like getting the indentation correct and the hand crafting make YAML difficult to work with at times. CDK8s is a project looking to simplify this and

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How to provision AWS EKS Cluster using CDK8s and Helm Chart

cdk8s is a software development framework for defining Kubernetes applications and reusable abstractions using familiar programming…

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AWS recently announced that the SDK for Rust is now GA and ready for production use. Here is example of using #Rustlang to improve performance with #DynamoDB .

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20 times faster data submission to DynamoDB by parallel processing with Rust.

Introduction Rust is claimed to be a fast language, and we compared the speed of data...

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Learn by example! Use various @awscloud components to build a #serverless api along with it’s own #CICD pipeline. From Puneet Chandel and @HackerNoon #AWSLambda #SAM

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A Guide to Building an AWS Serverless API and CICD Pipeline | HackerNoon

This article demonstrates the development of a Serverless API utilizing AWS services

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You can easily use #GithubActions to setup your #CICD infrastructure on @awscloud . In this article from Arnav Mahajan all the steps are explained in detail. #iac #infrasturctureAsCode

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When experimenting with #serverless applications on AWS I really like using the Serverless Application Model (SAM). It guides you through most of the setup and takes care of putting together the config needed and pushing it all to AWS for you. This

Developing AWS Lambda Functions In Locally

1. Introduction In this article, we are going to learn about Lambda function creating,...

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An excellent article on implementing a semantic search engine using #Rustlang 🦀🦀🦀 From @ddprrt and @shuttle_dev

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Semantic Search with Qdrant, OpenAI and Shuttle

Explore the process of creating a semantic search with Qdrant, OpenAI, and Shuttle. The article provides a detailed guide on indexing blogs, using OpenAI for document queries, and deploying a web...

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AWS has finally made the #Rustlang SDK GA! It had been in “Developer Preview” for a long time. “the AWS SDK for Rust is now generally available and supported for production use.” Rust is an excellent choice to build your AWS apps with. 🦀🦀🦀

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Announcing general availability of the AWS SDK for Rust | Amazon Web Services

We’re excited to announce that the AWS SDK for Rust is now generally available and supported for production use. The AWS SDK for Rust provides an idiomatic, type-safe API, along with the benefits of...

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When you want to save a lot of $$$’s moving data between AWS services inside your VPC or need to setup private networks in AWS that don’t have internet access you need to know about VPC Endpoints For example VPC endpoints allow you to transfer large

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Let's talk about AWS VPC endpoints

VPC endpoints enable us to establish private connections between your VPC and supported AWS services,...

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A series of articles with all the code for setting up your containers on @awscloud using #terraform with #ECS #serverless #dynamodb

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A very interesting article detailing the deployment of a really cool #serverless app on @awscloud using #Terraform #iac . Aman Pathak has done an amazing job on this.

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Everyone has heard of all the times where data was leaked via misconfigured S3 buckets. Here are some best practices you can use to secure your S3 data using MFA from Wojciech (Dogan) Doganowski #security

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Step-by-Step Tutorial: How to Secure AWS S3 with MFA and SSO

Unlock the Power of AWS S3 Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Safeguarding Your Data with Multi-Factor Authentication and SSO

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Learn by example! #GithubActions and workflows along with #Terraform - an excellent combination of tools to use for your #serverless application development on AWS. Article from Lateef Taiwo

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Serverless Application Deployment on AWS using Terraform and GitHub Actions

Hello Cloud and DevOps enthusiast, in this write-up, I’ll explore the utilization of AWS Serverless services, including AWS Lambda…

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Learn by example! Here is a detailed walk through of setting up a static site on @awscloud using #Terraform #iac along with #Route53 , certificates and #CloudfrontFunctions from Walid Karray

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Learn by example! If you’re looking to get started with #serverless apps on AWS here is a great article and repo to try out from Aman Pathak

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Deploying Awesome App on AWS Serverless Services — Step-by-Step Guide

Welcome to the comprehensive guide on deploying Awesome App, a full-stack AWS Serverless project. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through the…

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Darryl Ruggles

9 months

You can easily setup your NodeJS express backend using an AWS Lambda serverless approach. Here Prasad Lakshan provides a great example.

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Deploying a Node Express API on AWS Lambda

Launching a Node Express API with AWS Lambda

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Darryl Ruggles

1 year

Hosting #MultiTenant services on AWS is a common use case. In this article @FilippFediakov details how to use the #CDK and various @awscloud services including #APIGateway and #AwsAppSync to set this up and enable monitoring. #iac

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How to Build Multi-Tenant Internal Services in AWS and CDK (Part 1): API Gateway and AppSync |...

Build multi-tenant architecture for internal service with API Gateway and AppSync using AWS CDK

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Darryl Ruggles

1 year

#AWSLambda #Powertools is a great set of tools that every #serverless developer should be using. It makes building your functions and applications much easier.

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Supercharge Your AWS Lambda Game With Lambda Powertools

So you’ve figured out how to run serverless code in AWS. Now what?

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Darryl Ruggles

10 months

Orchestrating the flow of actions in your application can be a challenge. Visualizing it and explaining to others can be difficult as well. One tool that can help in this area with AWS is Step Functions. It is a workflow management tool that allows you

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AWS Step Functions: Orchestrating Distributed Applications with Ease

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, managing and orchestrating distributed applications can be a challenging task. AWS Step…

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Darryl Ruggles

9 months

When working on GraphQL APIs you may have multiple teams or domains that want to work independently but at the end of the day you want a single endpoint for applications to use for interactions with any of the underlying APIs. This is where the AWS

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Deploy a microservices application using AppSync Merge API with SAM

Building dependable and scalable applications in the ever-changing world of software development today calls for state-of-the-art resources…

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Darryl Ruggles

11 months

Terraform and #GithubActions - 2 of my favourite tools together! In this article @LaysaUchoa shows how you can build a #CICD pipeline to install your infrastructure using #Terraform #iac

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Automating Terraform Deployments with GitHub Actions: A Step-by-Step Guide

I'm a Cloud Engineer at Nordcloud. Introduction GitHub Actions is a potent automation...

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Darryl Ruggles

1 year

Everyone wants containers to start as quick as possible. @awscloud recently open sourced Seekable OCI ( #SOCI ) tech which enables #AWSFargate containers running on #ECS to run with partially downloaded images. Here Kim Brandt tests and shows how to use it.

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Reducing AWS Container Startup Time with SOCI Index Layer

For businesses facing slow container launch times on AWS due to prolonged image downloads, the solution might be the Seekable OCI (SOCI).

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Darryl Ruggles

11 months

AWS Lambda was launched 9 years ago today. I wonder if @jeffbarr knew what would come out of his announcement on that day in 2014? #serverless #AWSLambda @awscloud

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Darryl Ruggles

10 months

It’s a great idea to keep a close eye on your cloud account costs. I find it’s much easier to have the information pushed to me than remembering to go and check it all the time. Here is a quick example from Divyansh Patel to get the status from AWS

Receive Daily AWS Billing Updates on Telegram using AWS Lambda

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Darryl Ruggles

1 year

You can use #Cloudwatch alarms to keep track of key states or metrics in your AWS environment. In this article @LeeJamesGilmore shows how to use the AWS #CDK and #serverless components to setup custom alarms to do this.

Monitoring AWS CloudWatch Logs with CDK: Creating Alarms for Specific Error Conditions

An example of creating AWS CloudWatch alarms on filtered CloudWatch logs using the AWS CDK and TypeScript, with full code repository to…

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@RDarrylR

Darryl Ruggles

9 months

If you’re looking for a very detailed example of using Terraform and GitHub Actions to deploy container images to ECR (Elastic Container Registry) and then spin up Fargate containers on ECS (Elastic Container Service) this is it. Article from Stephane

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Deploying a Containerized App to ECS Fargate Using a Private ECR Repo & Terragrunt

In past articles, we've focused a lot on deployments to servers (Amazon EC2 instances in...

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Darryl Ruggles

9 months

Observability is one of the most important parts of having a successful and long running application. It doesn’t get as much attention with most projects as it should. Here Indika Wimalasuriya discusses some of the key areas of observability and the

AWS Observability: Building a Comprehensive Solution for Distributed Systems

Observability is now a key theme in modern distributed systems maintenance. Why? Because businesses...

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Darryl Ruggles

1 year

A step by step guide on setting up your own custom domain and api using the AWS #CDK from Sergey Dudik #iac #serverless #AWSLambda

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Darryl Ruggles

10 months

In most examples for #AWSLambda you see, the API Gateway is typically in front of them. There are many ways to trigger Lambda functions and this is not always the best approach. It’s good to understand all the possible approaches so you can decide which

Triggering Lambda function with Application Load Balancer

This is a basic hands-on on triggering AWS Lambda function via Application Load Balancer DNS. So,...

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@RDarrylR

Darryl Ruggles

10 months

There is all kind of architectural theory out there around microservice and #serverless designs. For example there is a great site at Serverlessland here () This article from Tridib Bolar and Sergio De Simone discusses some useful patterns as well. @InfoQ

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Serverless Land

Your resource for learning serverless technology.

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Darryl Ruggles

10 months

Storing access keys anywhere to authenticate with your AWS account is a bad idea. You should be using OIDC to generate temporary credentials unless you have no other option. When using Github Actions and workflows you can easily set this OIDC approach up

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Configure Authentication to your AWS account in your GitHub actions CI

Easily authenticate your AWS account for your CI/CD pipeline!

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Darryl Ruggles

11 months

There are many ways to build/package/push your @awscloud #serverless apps. For most use cases I like using the AWS Serverless Application Model ( #SAM ) and it's associated CLI tools. Here is a detailed article from Isaac Martin about using SAM.

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Darryl Ruggles

1 year

An excellent use of Lambda @Edge - auth for static webpages from @jimmydahlqvist #serverless #AWSCognito #AWSLambda

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Protecting a Static Website with JWT and Lambda@Edge

Post about how to use Amazon Cognito together with Lambda@Edge to add protection and authorization to static content hosted with Amazon S3 and CloudFront.

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Darryl Ruggles

1 year

#AWSCopilot can be used to spin up containers easily on @awscloud Here is an example of setting up a #serverless API using Copilot and #APIGatway from @merttalayoglu

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Deploying a Serverless Load-Balanced API with AWS Copilot on API Gateway

Serverless computing has become a game-changer in the world of cloud computing, allowing developers to focus on writing code rather than…

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Darryl Ruggles

1 year

You can use #Eventbridge to schedule actions in your @awscloud environment. Here is an example of using it along with #AWSLambda to schedule turning on and off EC2 servers to save on costs. #serverless

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Implementing a serverless architecture for initiating and terminating EC2 instances on a scheduled…

Suppose we have several EC2 servers, such as testing servers, that are currently running continuously despite only being needed during…

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Darryl Ruggles

1 year

A good primer on using #StepFunctions in your next #serverless app on AWS. Step functions can help with the understanding of how your app works and make sure you cover all the different states.

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Darryl Ruggles

10 months

Learn by example! Using serverless components and event driven components like Eventbridge together can be a powerful combination to quickly build many interesting apps. Here is a great project with all the details included involving #serverless

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Hands-On: Integration Architecture - EC2 State Change Monitoring via EventBridge, Lambda, and…

This is a project where we’ll be using Lambda with EventBridge configured to track EC2 instance changes. Notifications regarding EC2 inst…

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Darryl Ruggles

11 months

Did you ever wonder about what happens when #AWSLambda functions are processed and run on @awscloud ? Here are some details from Vignesh Dayalan #serverless

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Decoding Lambda Handler Architecture: How AWS Lambda Functions Work

Introduction:

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@RDarrylR

Darryl Ruggles

7 years

“Learn full-stack #JavaScript with Node.js and React.js in 1 week” by @samerbuna #reactjs #nodejs

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Learn full-stack JavaScript with Node.js and React.js in 1 week

I’ve programmed in many different languages in the past and mostly avoided JavaScript because of its so many problems and WTF moments…

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Darryl Ruggles

9 months

A really interesting article about setting up Large Language Model (LLM) inside a serverless AWS Lambda function and running inferences against it. In this case it’s a smaller model (Microsoft Phi 2) downloaded from Hugging Face and built into a Lambda

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Deploy a language model (LLM) on AWS Lambda

Serverless language model inference using Python, Docker, Lambda, Phi-2 model. A Practical guide.

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9 months

Setting up your API on AWS typically involves using the API Gateway service. Executing your business logic typically involves a combination of AWS Lambda functions or container based solutions. Deploying your infrastructure is best done using an

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Mastering AWS API Gateway V2 HTTP and AWS Lambda With Terraform

With a solid foundation in AWS API Gateway and Lambda for serverless architecture, my recent deep...

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Darryl Ruggles

1 year

Why not combine the power of @FastAPI and @DynamoDB in your next project? Here is an example doing just that from #serverless @awscloud

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Building Scalable Serverless CRUD APIs with FastAPI and AWS DynamoDB Local: A Step-by-Step Guide

Revolutionize the way you develop applications by seamlessly integrating Python FastAPI and the power of AWS DynamoDB.

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10 months

DynamoDB is the most popular key/value database offering on AWS. It is truly #serverless and can scale to satisfy almost any requirement. People used to working with relational databases typically get scared looking at something like #DynamoDB but it

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Mastering DynamoDB: A Deep Dive into High-Performance Database Solutions

Welcome to the world of DynamoDB, Amazon's revolutionary NoSQL database service that's changing the game in cloud database management. At its core, DynamoDB offers a seamless blend of scalability,...

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Darryl Ruggles

10 months

Amazon Eventbridge is an important component for building event driven applications on AWS. It has a number of parts including event buses, the scheduler, pipes, and more. Eventbridge pipes allow you to integrate multiple components together to more

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Darryl Ruggles

10 months

Building your #AWSLambda functions with #golang is a great choice. Here is a good article from Rodrigo Schieck to get you started. #serverless

The Art of Crafting a Powerful Go Lambda Function from Scratch

I'll guide you through the quickest and simplest path to creating a fully functional Go serverless...

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Darryl Ruggles

8 months

When using EC2 instances on AWS you have multiple ways you can connect to them. The traditional approach used SSH connections but the newer and more preferred approaches include Session Manager and EC2 Instance Connect. This article from Amudha

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Demystifying EC2 Connectivity: A Practical Guide to SSH, Instance Connect, and Session Manager

In this article, we will be discussing the various methods to connect our EC2 instance, from the easiest to the most secure.

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Darryl Ruggles

10 months

When looking at database options in AWS you need to consider #DynamoDB . It is a highly scalable and performant key/value noSQL database that is truly #serverless . You can create tables in seconds and only pay for what you use. This article from Babatunde

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DynamoDB, the dynamite way of making tables!

What is Dynamo DB?

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Darryl Ruggles

8 months

An interesting approach to searching logs or other data sets using AWS Lambda #serverless functions. Index your data and then perform on demand queries with no big constant cost

Scaling search to 0 with AWS Lambda

In this blog post, we introduce you to the new Serverless deployment mode for Quickwit based on AWS Lambda.

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Darryl Ruggles

1 year

A good sample #serverless project using #AWSLambda from Pavan Koushik Kommuri

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Darryl Ruggles

10 months

A lot of resources sit idle in AWS accounts costing you $$$'s. With some simple automation you can save a lot. A neat approach from Antoine Cichowicz using #GithubActions to create/destroy your infra each day on a schedule using #Terraform .

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Automate AWS Resource Deployment with GitHub to Save on Cloud Costs

In cloud computing, optimizing costs is crucial. A significant portion of cloud bills results from underutilized resources running during…

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